There are lots of ideas on the internet about how to start doing a yoga practice at home, but I like John Schumacher's suggestion best: Just do one pose a day and you've begun a home practice. It can be any pose. Maybe you did a pose in class that felt good and was fairly easy for you to do. Start with that one. Or maybe there's a pose that you didn't do as well as you'd like and you want to make it better. Practicing at home will help. The nice thing about doing one pose is that maybe you'll do another, and another, and another. That's what happens to me.
I went to yoga classes for years before I started practicing at home. And I really believe I missed out. But a wonderful thing happened when I did start. I learned how much I knew and how much I didn't know about the pose. The next time we did that pose in class, I listened harder and tried to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. I also found that I made more progress in my poses when I practiced at home.
Give it a try!
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